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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 310–325.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Rini Bhattacharya Mehta © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Missionary Sannyasi and the Burden of the Colonized: The Reluctant Alliance between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 203–213.
Published: 01 May 2007
...David N. Lorenzen Duke University Press 2007 Gentile Religion in South India, China, and Tibet: Studies by Three Jesuit Missionaries David N. Lorenzen efore...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 620–637.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Parama Roy Abstract This article is an examination of the career of the “wolf child”—a human child lost or sacrificed by human parents but nurtured by wolf mothers—in imperial South Asia. Notably, wolf children become a particular concern of evangelical Protestant missionaries in the nineteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2018
... were not free from the policies of the colonial government and Christian missionaries or the networks of black Atlantic educationalists. References Adebiyi Peter Awelewa . “ Coker, Jacob Kehinde (A): 1866 – 1945, the African Church of Nigeria .” Dictionary of African Christian Biography...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 435–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., and cosmopolitanism. It traces how these new cultural articulations were often the outcome of crossings among Iran, India, and Europe for educational, journalistic, and missionary purposes. Through these crossings, cosmopolitan understandings of language, religion, and politics, albeit with their own hierarchies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 398–412.
Published: 01 December 2009
... missionaries and Turkish converts to Christianity is first and foremost nationalist and etatist, not religious. Spokespeople and the gunmen of the antimissionary and anti-Christian campaign fear and loathe Turkish Christians primarily because they believe that by converting to Christianity they are being...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 175–184.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and difference entailed by translation practices. Edwards situates these practices in a conceptual and linguistic space partly shaped by nineteenth-century missionary efforts, and also by state attempts to regulate the public use of Buddhist language. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Burma...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 May 1997
... people. It preserves for slaves, nearly a quarter of a century after the abolition them a personal identity and the reassurance of group of British slavery. Those black Baptist Americans corn- solidarity in the face of alien forces or ideas. ing with a missionary purpose were the product...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 46–61.
Published: 01 August 1997
....’ Christian missionaries, reacting to the limits on nial Northern Nigeria, described Afncans differently their proselpzing dictated by the positive embrace of from European writers in the metropole. The latter may “Orientalism” by government officials, responded in have exploited every opportunity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 229–245.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2012 . Nawid Senzil K. Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919–29: King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama . Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda , 1999 . Porter Andrew . Religion versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (1): 30–34.
Published: 01 May 1998
.... Lemercinier 1982 . Size and Structure of the Catholic Church in Inda. The Indigenization of an Exogenous Religious Institution in a Society in Transition . Louvain-le-Neuve: Centre Tricontinental. Kooiman , D. 1989 . Conversion and Social Equality: the London Missionary Society in South Travancore...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 254–270.
Published: 01 August 2003
... the missionary and serendipitous and superficial overlap of two very differ- the focus of his interest takes place on the Tamil coast ent orders of meaning and value.” They also believe that in the southeastern part of the Indian sub-continent in “Given the mounting evidence of the ‘shallow- the early years...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 443–454.
Published: 01 December 2018
... in Late Victorian and Edwardian England . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1994 . Crowther Samuel . A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language: Compiled by the Rev. Samuel Crowther, Native Missionary of the Church Missionary Society. Together with Introductory Remarks by the Rev. O. E. Vidal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 141–148.
Published: 01 August 2003
...…. The tion of Spaniards; missionary tendency of the Spanish Straits of Gibraltar are not a wall that separates one nation; lack of economic exploitation of the colonial house from another; on the contrary, it is a door territories, and presence of mestization.”12 For me, the opened by Nature to communicate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 297–317.
Published: 01 August 2005
... in education missionary on secondary source detailed and informative particularly A 53...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2010
... While the needs of colonial administra- by Stanhope was truly a frontier press in a way tors and missionaries helped fuel demand for that the wooden heirs of Gutenberg’s machine 13. Ibid. 17. Graham Shaw, Printing in Calcutta to 1800: A De- 20. John...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 286–289.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., colonial, and postcolonial occidental repre- tions of the Zionist movement. sentations of African cultures in music, show business, In the last pages of the book, in an attempt to assess law, art, literary texts, popular literature, missionary let- the women’s movement, Fleischmann...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2007
...- ful missionary movements in the world. Its members leave their homes for up to six months, Vol. 10.1215/1089201 27, No. 1, 2007 doi traveling in small groups to proselytize among Muslims. The Tablighi Jama’at seems to strive 7 by Duke University Press in secular...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 7–25.
Published: 01 May 2007
... looks at one particular form of South-to-South transfer and exchange, focus- ing on the transcultural transfer of religious knowledge, norms, and values between South and Southeast Asia via the medium of a global Muslim missionary network. Among the many transnational Islamist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 63–66.
Published: 01 May 1997
... sequences of European Christianization. By the end of to shape these societies, new forces associated with slavery, the missionaries, who had originally intended Christian missionary activity also began to exert their not to tamper with the institution of slavery deliberately influence...